767 Bryant Street – Residential Lofts

Caution to anyone considering renting at 767 Bryant Street. I just finished a one year lease in a one bedroom loft there so I know the property and management (or lack thereof) pretty well. The problem is the lofts were not intended to be rented. They were built on spec and the developer wasn’t able to sell over half the units. When the market went south he tried renting the unsold units. There was literally no property management during my stay there. He eventually went into foreclosure and now god help the next person who rents my unit.
The HOA, Collins Management, didn’t kick in until more than half the units were sold. So the building’s common areas went into complete neglect. When I would ask Collins for assistance with the elevator or other building related problems I was first asked if I was an owner or a renter as if it made a difference. In either case the elevator was out of order and needed attention pronto. It was a no win situation.
Some of the problems included but were not limited to …
1– paying the deposit and 1^st months rent on the 23^rd expecting the keys, garage remote etc on the 1^st but not hearing from the developer until the 4^th !
2 — the refrigerator died after the 1^st month and it took 4 days to get a replacement — does anyone know what a fridge full of rotting food smells like after even 1 day?
3 — when I asked the developer what I should do with a fridge full of rotting food because I did not want to inflict it on my neighbors by leaving it in the garbage cans in the garage he suggested I dump it all in the flower mart’s bins in the alley. I did not follow his suggestion, instead I left it for him when he came 4 days later to replace the appliance.
4 — garbage piling up in the garage because again there was no property management working with sunset scavengers to arrange pick up. Instead the tenants, in disgust, finally organized their own garbage clean up day on a weekend.
5 — no access to the cable room to install dish network. There is literally no one who has access to the cable room.
6 — being told to move all my possessions out of my assigned storage locker in the garage because the developer gave me the wrong locker number upon move in day.
7 — the elevator went out of service at least 6 times in the 12 months I lived there. Once for an entire 5 days. And yes it went out of service on move out day which the HOA refused to compensate me when I had to rehire movers to come back a week later when it was fixed.
Stay away from this building. It’s financial troubles will only become your worst nightmare.